For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.